Jonestown, PA
This story is just a short glimpse of a two week stop at a KOA campground in Pennsylvania with our traveling friends and companions.
We had decided on the KOA during phone cons. We were getting a late start heading north because we had both spent time (a month) in our wives hometowns; they in IL and us in SC.
We choose the KOA because of location. We had big plans for visiting all the surrounding attractions in the Amish/Mennonite communities. Lebanon, Hershey, Lancaster, Reading & Philadelphia were all on our list of things to do. Lots of other stories will come from some of those side trips.
We got to the KOA a day before our friends and were all set-up when they came rolling in.
Those that have been in and around the Amish are going to have an easier time with this little bit of CG gossip. The KOA is larger than it looks in the few pictures posted below. It’s a Tuesday and early in the season so not many campers, yet, they’ll be there by the weekend.
What we didn’t know or was told about was, we were enjoying the normal prevailing winds. When they did a 180, the reality of Amish dairy farming was thrust right at us. Along with the stench came thousands of flies, biting flies. They first raided us during a large fire ring gathering with live entertainment on a Friday evening. You should have seen everyone scurrying back to their RVs to “batten down the hatches”.
All in all it was a beautiful CG with a nice country store/office and very quiet at night. There is no way to counter the flies and stench, it’s all part of the Amish country side.